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Comment by sshine

15 days ago

The $10/mo. plan is technically not "without AI". You still have FastGPT (quick answers), meaning any query ending with "?" aggregates an answer based on the scraping of the top search results, rather fast. And you have Kagi Translate, and Universal Summarizer. So there isn't a "no AI Kagi subscription".

But the search itself is worth $10/mo. if you ask me.

I subscribed a year before I bought into AI, and I was very happy with it.

I believe you're funding a free tier more than you're funding AI product research.

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JohnFen  15 days ago

The AI stuff is mostly easy to ignore, just don't end your queries with a question mark. Image search is more annoying, though, because you have to click a button every time to remove AI results. You can't set a persistent preference.

  • wpm  15 days ago

    I should be able to go into my settings and just say “don’t ever show me AI search results unless I ask, which doesn’t mean using a normal, commonplace punctuation mark”.

    It’s very frustrating that “turn it off” is a fucking afterthought to “turn it on” for a service I pay for.

    • sshine  15 days ago

      > “turn it off” is a fucking afterthought to “turn it on”

      Kagi is an AI-oriented company from the start, not an “… and AI!” gimmick. AI-curated search results are believed to eventually replace normal search results.

      If I just want a factoid on a website, I might as well have a program crawl and scan for it.

      If I want the summary and I don’t bother reading the long version, I might as well have a program crawl and summarise.

      If I want specific details in a big document, and I am not familiar with the wording to look for, I might as well prompt.

      It’s like complaining about shellfish at a seafood restaurant. :-)

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